The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace.

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.

The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.